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Show Burning Charges Filed Two Cedar City boys, aged nine and 10, were referred by Cedar City Police Detective Steve Warby to juvenile court for alleged responsibility for a fire in a vacant lot at 100 Altamira Avenue last Friday night. The fire occurred at about 6 p.m. Thursday and according ac-cording to Detective Warby, was started when the two boys allegedly wanted to find out which weeds burned fastest. Two units of the Cedar City Fire Department were called to control the fire. Fire Chief Dave Bentley reported that his crews encountered flames up to 20 feet high upon their arrival, and although some power lines were threatened by the blaze, no houses or structures struc-tures were endangered before the fire was extinguished. ex-tinguished. Detective Warby stated that the two boys will be sent . ot juvenile court on charges of reckless burning. |